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“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with. You may not live on the island, but you can’t tell me it’s not your home. Your bubble, Mr. Baker. It’s been popped. Why would you allow it to grow around you again?”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“What do you want from us? The dumb girls are too dumb, the smart girls are too smart, and the average girls are too unexceptional?”
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints…”
― A Philosophy of Walking
― A Philosophy of Walking
“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
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Each month we read a book by a female winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. BONUS-READ: In November we will read Olga Tokarzcuk, Drive Your Plow ...more
Arifa’s 2025 Year in Books
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